false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170352426m/48260.jpg 48260 3 Maybe you can't be too outrageous when the subject is Florida politics, but Tim Dorsey (<I>Florida Roadkill</I>, <I>Hammerhead Ranch Motel</I>) manages to go so far over the top in this satirical page burner that even diehard fans of Carl Hiaasen, Laurence Shames, and Dave Barry may find their patience wearing thin after the first couple of chapters. When Republican Governor Marlon Conrad is inexplicably called up by the reserve unit he joined for a reelection photo-op and sent to Bosnia, he suffers a midlife crisis that has his campaign staff totally flummoxed. Not that they're playing with a full deck either; Conrad's closest adviser is a crazed serial killer who happens to be an expert in Florida folklore, and the rest of the boys on the bus--the Orange Crush, Marlon's joyride across the Sunshine State--aren't much saner.<p> While Conrad's the main character, there are enough second-string oddballs to keep this road trip going until the denouement, a bizarre debate between the governor and his opponent, Gomer Tatum, whose idea of intelligent political discourse is a WWF death match. They include Helmut Von Zeppelin, a multimillionaire who owns most of the politicians in Florida; Jackie Monroeville, a trailer queen determined to get her man into the governor's mansion; and Gottfried Escrow, Marlon's chief of staff. There's plenty of mayhem but not much mystery in this comic novel that proves there can be too much of a good thing. While Dorsey keeps the belly laughs coming, he doesn't stop long enough for the reader to give much of a hoot about any of his characters, much less root for the good guys to win. <I>--Jane Adams</I> 1434323 2001 Orange Crush total:343|5:109|4:140|3:73|2:20|1:1| 343 1365 441 22 2 1 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 13:43:49 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 19:30:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Sat Nov 17 13:08:57 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 16:49:58 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 19:16:36 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 19:20:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 15:54:17 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 15:54:17 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 19 08:35:37 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 08:43:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 00:38:52 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 00:41:34 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Jun 13 21:02:47 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 21:09:39 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 22 17:33:59 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 17:34:56 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Fri Aug 21 21:06:45 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 21:07:27 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 14:06:05 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 14:06:53 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 18 08:29:20 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 08:31:28 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Oct 03 12:45:56 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 23:01:44 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 12:45:56 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Wed Mar 26 21:09:47 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 20:25:30 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 06:26:35 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 06:27:32 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Feb 05 15:49:43 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 05 15:50:51 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 21 11:13:57 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 11:15:02 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Thu Dec 11 18:39:46 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 22 22:35:16 -0700 2008 Thu Dec 11 18:39:46 -0800 2008 1 5 0 false false Mon Mar 03 09:34:47 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 02 08:28:30 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Nov 14 06:00:52 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 06:01:34 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Thu Sep 06 11:32:38 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 11:32:58 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=48260